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The SundayTelegraph - UK America has warned the Niger government to keep out of the row over claims that Saddam Hussein sought to buy uranium for his nuclear weapons programme from the impoverished West African state.

Mr Hamadou said that the Niger government had never had discussions with Iraq about uranium and called on Tony Blair to produce the "evidence" he claims to have to confirm that Iraq sought uranium from Niger in the 1990s.

Mr Cohen's intervention suggests that Washington is keen to draw a line under the "uranium from Africa" affair, although The Telegraph has also learned that senior American soldiers were in Iraq last week to investigate the movement of Niger's uranium.

In 1989 the Sunday title was briefly merged in to a seven-day operation under Max Hastings' overall control.

On Sunday March 7, the twins announced they were launching another takeover bid, this time just for the Daily Telegraph and its Sunday sister paper rather than the whole stable.

The Daily Telegraph, still smarting after losing its star sports writer Paul Hayward to the Mail - a fact the paper trumpeted in a TV advert during the Ashes - regards the luring of Heffer back to the broadsheet after a decade as a great coup.

Sunday, for many the one true day of relaxation, time for yourself and your family - a reality captured in the editorial mix of The SundayTelegraph and enjoyed by over 1.8 million readers*.

As well as producing Sunday's only sport liftout, The SundayTelegraph includes pages designed to appeal to the inquisitive minds of children and regular sections such as Escape, the entertainment based IE and the healthy lifestyle oriented body+soul.

In essence, The SundayTelegraph is an egalitarian and all-inclusive newspaper that produces a total of eight seperate editions, each of which is aimed at getting the whole of NSW involved in both serious and light-hearted matters that affect the entire community.

ZNet | Mainstream Media | The Bbc, The Sunday Telegraph, And Cancer In Iraq(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)

The response of the SundayTelegraph to a recent BBC report is a case in point.

The SundayTelegraph's article is an excellent example of how, when the 'liberal' media even begins to step out of establishment-friendly line, powerful flak machines are on hand to subject them to pressure to force them back into line.

Despite the illusion of a fierce debate, neither the BBC report nor the SundayTelegraph presented any evidence challenging the government position on DU that was likely to be deemed serious and credible by British viewers and readers.

ASH's challenge to the Sunday Telegraph's reporting on passive smoking at the Press Complaints Commission (1998)(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)

On March 8th 1998 the SundayTelegraph published a front-page headline report accusing the World Health Organisation of suppressing a study that the newspaper claimed showed there was no link between passive smoking and lung cancer.

The biggest problem is that NATO starts to believe in its lies and propaganda, state the commentators of "The SundayTelegraph".

The newspaper reminds that the British Government is using the aggression on Yugoslavia as pre-election campaign, trying to conquer the enemy by quick and sharp language, but in the armed conflict it is not acceptable method.

In that light, Serbia and its politicians are working in the propaganda field much better than the NATO, says the commentator, John Keagen from the "SundayTelegraph".

The following article published in the SundayTelegraph is mischievous, it refers to the Portia Trust.

The Telegraph has learned that the organisation was unable to pay phone bills or maintain its helpline for the families of convicted murderers.

The SundayTelegraph did not learn that Portia was unable to pay phone bills or maintain its helpline "for the families of convicted murderers." I had explained the now-overcome financial problems in The Journalist article, inviting someone to replace me. And that helpline was for non-rational and compulsive shoplifters, and for potential baby-snatchers.

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The Sunday Telegraph(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)

After all the hype and genuine anticipation that followed his arrival at the Old Vic a year ago, Spacey opened his reign last week with Cloaca, a comedy on the theme of male bonding written by Maria Goos, a Dutch playwright previously unknown to British audiences.

The view that Ms Goos's obscurity is no accident was forcefully expressed by Charles Spencer, the theatre critic of The Daily Telegraph, who declared the resulting show to be "a stinker".

If the play was a strange choice, it was, by way of mitigation, the choice of a strange man. Spacey, 45, has been behaving oddly ever since he moved to London late in 2003.

What must be considered however is that in the event of a leak on a customers supply pipe, Mid Kent Water do not provide a free leak repair service and if there has already been a payment, Mid Kent Water do not provide additional funds towards repairing the leak.

On the 30th of January, the SundayTelegraph referred to the ofwat report "Security of supply, leakage and the efficient use of water 2003-04 report" as confirming that water companies would provide free leak repairs.

The relevant section referred to by the SundayTelegraph lists the existing policy of each water company which in the case of Mid Kent Water is stated in the report as being:

The results are consistent with their being no additional risk for a person living or working with a smoker and could be consistent with passive smoke having a protective effect against lung cancer.

A report published in the British Medical Journal last October was hailed by the anti-tobacco lobby as definitive proof when it claimed that non-smokers living with smokers had a 25 per cent risk of developing lung cancer.

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Chet Baker and Isabella Frankau, even by the standards of the crazy circles they moved in, were an odd alliance.

While Baker was jamming around the Algerian quarter of Paris in cellars reeking of sweat and Gauloises, Lady Frankau would spend weekends at Ickleton Grange, her Essex country home near Saffron Walden, preparing Sunday lunch for her husband Sir Claude, a consulting surgeon at St George's Hospital.

Back in London during the week she would prescribe to a Bohemian circle of poets, writers, actors and jazzmen.

OSAMA BIN LADEN has for the first time admitted that his al-Qa'eda group carried out the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, the Telegraph can reveal.

The video will form the centrepiece of Britain and America's new evidence against bin Laden, to be released this Wednesday.

The footage, to which the Telegraph obtained access in the Middle East yesterday, was not made for public release via the al-Jazeera television network used by bin Laden for propaganda purposes in the past.

Court documents seen by The SundayTelegraph name Simon Mann, an Old Etonian scion of the Watney brewing family and a former Scots Guards officer, who is being held in jail with 70 other alleged mercenaries in Zimbabwe.

They were allegedly en route to overthrow the regime in Equatorial Guinea, but they insist that they had been recruited as security officers at a Congo diamond mine.

The SundayTelegraph has been told that its intelligence services had been tapping Mr Mann's phone and monitoring his activities in the run-up to March's events.

Leading shareholders in Royal Dutch, the Netherlands-based arm of Royal Dutch/Shell, are insisting that its directors remain legally liable for the series of blunders that have plunged the oil giant into crisis over the past year.

CHILDREN thought to be as young as two are being kidnapped or sold by their parents to be trained as ultra-lightweight camel jockeys in the Gulf states, where they face a life of danger, misery and loneliness.

Dozens are killed or seriously injured every year racing camels, on which huge sums are gambled illegally, according to evidence seen by The SundayTelegraph.

The children are smuggled out of Bangladesh as soon as they are old enough to walk and taken to live in harsh conditions in the United Arab Emirates, one of the world’s richest countries.

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The Daily Telegraph | Confidential(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)

THE unofficial award season for Australian film has begun and this year it seems there is truly something to celebrate.

THERE are bound to be some seriously wounded egos among music industry types with Michael Gudinski staging an exclusive private shindig to rival the official ARIA awards after-party on Sunday night.

PROVING the store wars aren't over just yet, David Jones ventured into what is traditionally Myer territory by hosting a racewear morning tea in Sydney yesterday.

Geoff Hoon, the Defence Secretary, is preparing to make a Commons statement tomorrow announcing that about 650 soldiers from the Black Watch will leave Basra and come under US command "for a few weeks".

The SundayTelegraph understands, however, that the deployment is being resisted by Gen Sir Michael Walker, the Chief of the Defence Staff.

Nicholas Soames, the Conservative defence spokesman, also expressed concern yesterday and suggested that British troops were being moved for political reasons.

I sympathise with the philosopher Roger Scruton, who told SundayTelegraph readers last week that he plans for his baby son a "genuinely deprived childhood", one deprived among other things of television.

The Daily Telegraph sounds the rallying cry that echoes from the platforms of the British National Party." Not content with this, she attacks the editor, Charles Moore, for his "effete moral frivolity".

There is nothing in what the Telegraphs have published since the Macpherson report, possibly excluding one or two letters, that could possibly, by any reasonable person, be considered evidence of racism.